WV Junior College leaving longtime Charleston location for Cross Lanes – Charleston Gazette-Mail
West Virginia Junior College, a small for-profit school, is leaving the downtown Charleston location it has occupied for decades and moving to Cross Lanes.
The college had been in the building, at the intersection of Virginia and McFarland streets and across from the Gazette-Mail, since before 1970, said Mike Callen, whose family owns the school.
The school says its history in Charleston goes back much further.
It says it was founded as the Capital City Commercial College in 1892. For decades, that school occupied part of the Odd Fellows building on the corner of Capital and Lee streets.
It’s now part of a chain with campuses in Morgantown and Bridgeport, plus Pennsylvania and Ohio.
Charleston Campus President Michelle Miles said the school will now rent the former location of the Everest Institute, at 5514 Big Tyler Road, in Cross Lanes.
Everest was part of the national for-profit Corinthian Colleges system that shuttered several years ago.